Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that the Boylan brothers, John, 26, and Terence, 21, lack a sense of humor. This cycle of rock songs is an explosion of surprises, blending fey whimsy with just plain loony-bin clowning. A country corn put-on called I Been Spending Too Much Money at the Fair is a hilarious frontal attack on the Nashville sound...
...proclaimed "unknown quantity" such as Agnew hardly helped. Neither did the tasteless opulence of Miami Beach or the well-coiffured, well-dressed appearance of the delegates. "They're nice people," said one big-city Northern Senator, "but they've just never ridden a subway." The comment was not altogether fair. It is such people who work long and hard for their political parties; affluence, or the lack of it, is not necessarily an index of social conscience. Still, the contrast between the people in the Convention Hall and the nation's grubbier problems could not be ignored...
...hopes of giving the dissidents a fair hearing at the convention, a group of Democrats led by Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes last week formed the unwieldy sounding Commission of Democratic Selection of Presidential Nominees. Its aims are to campaign for abolition of the unit rule, offer guidelines on seating of disputed delegations, and work to ensure adequate representation for minority groups. Yet Hughes, now running for the Senate, is unhappy with McCarthy as well as Humphrey. Once a confidant of Lyndon Johnson, Hughes fell out with the Administration, largely because of the war, and became a Robert Kennedy...
...this would require elections, perhaps a series of them, and how these could be kept free and fair in Viet Nam, corroded by war and ill-trained in the disciplines of democracy, is a staggering problem. "You exercise your ingenuity," says a U.S. diplomat, "trying to find some formula by which everyone thinks he would have some chance to win a nonviolent competition. But somebody's going to be wrong." Outside the Government, a great deal of ingenuity has been applied in recent months to devising "scenarios" of how the war might be ended, the peace structured...
...novelty and more of a serious mode of transportation. A vehicle that skims on a cushion of air over land, ice or water, the Hovercraft carried 370,000 passengers on brief trips along the St. Lawrence River during Expo 67 and proved to be one of the fair's most popular attractions. Now it is being used for such diverse purposes as ferrying passengers between British coastal resort towns and hunting down Viet Cong in the swamps of the Mekong Delta...